Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung
Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1746-61. First edition. First edition of the Insecten-Belustigung ("Insect Entertainment"), one of the outstanding... Read More
Price: $7,000
Science
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Les poissons des eaux douces de la France. Anatomie - physiologie - description des espèces - moœurs - instincts -...
Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1866. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed, "A Monsieur Jules Kinckel témoingage d'affection de l'auteur E. Blanchard."
Price: $450
The Art of Firing a Mortar
L’art de jetter les bombes.
À Paris: Chez l’auteur. Et se vend À Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier, 1699. Sixth edition (first published 1683). The Art of Firing a Mortar. Blondel (1618-1686), brilliant mathematician, architect engineer, and topographer, was admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1669. He became director of the Royal Academy of...
Price: $2,000
Primitive Art.
Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co, 1927. First edition. Ashley Montagu's copy, signed by him. With a Typed Note, signed, about the importance of this book and Boas to him. Boas and Ruth Benedict were his advisors while he studying for his Ph.D from 1933-37.
Price: $250
The Bolton Drug Co. Illustrated Price List.
Brooklyn, N.Y: 264-266-268 & 270 Fulton Street, c. 1889.
Price: $275
First American edition
One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the best Artists and containing...
Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the...
Price: $1,500
Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation.
Boston: Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation, November 8, 1843. Stock certificate for thirty-six shares of the Boston and Providence Rail Road, signed by Henry Dalton--cancelled November 16, 1843 (in manuscript).
Price: $150
Dictionnaire Universal d'Histoie et de Géographie...Ouvrage Revu et Continué par A. Cahssing.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1872. Nouvelle édition (Vingt-Troisième).
Price: $150
New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical.
London: Printed for W. Mears, 1726. Fifth edition, with an Appendix.
Price: $750
Clavis Calendaria; or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: Illustrated with Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Classical Notes … in Two Volumes.
London: for the Author and sold by Longman, Hurst Rees, et. al, 1812. First edition.
Price: $300
Dissertation Third: Exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Chemical Philosophy from the early ages to the end of...
[Boston: Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1818]. First American edition.
Price: $250
Arizona and Its Bird Life. A Naturalist's Adventures with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts, Grasslands, Foothills, and Mountains of...
Cleveland, Ohio: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition.
Price: $200
Original Paul Bransom Drawing
Vandergo Monkey.
N.d. Original Paul Bransom Drawing. A strong and attractive portrait. Paul Bransom (1885-1979), a native of Washington, D.C., received early training in mechanical drawing which led him to analyze and record the individual characteristics of each of the animals he drew. He had a long and distinguished career as an animal.....
Price: $750
Inscribed
Secrets of the Friendly Woods.
New York: The Century Co, [1926]. Inscribed. Brasher was a well-known bird artist, whose most noted work was "Birds and Trees of North America". This is an early work with a fine inscription, “To my friend 'Marguerite' An officer in the army fighting for a Square deal to the little...
Price: $150
STONE & WEBSTER CO. IN BRAZIL
Photograpas: photograph album of local scenes and construction projects in various towns, in Brazil.
c. 1923. STONE & WEBSTER CO. IN BRAZIL. A collection of photos of mostly local scenes, as well as construction projects and employees of Stone & Webster Co., and subsidiary, and Brightman & Co., Inc. Photos include William T. McCaskey and Mayor of Codo on mule; handcars transporting passengers and...
Price: $450
Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation upon Health.
Hartford: F.J. Huntington, 1832. First edition. Hunter & McAlpine call this a 'popular...guide to mental hygiene with the stress on social influences.." Brigham was a pyschiatrist who became the first superindendant of the Utica Psychiatric Cente in 1842 and in 1844, became one of the founding members of the Association...
Price: $400
Broadside: F.W. Steigelman & Co Publishers and Art Dealers printed on both sides.
Cincinnati: 1877.
Price: $150
Ashley Montagu's Copy
Mémoires d'Anthropologie Zooloqique et Biologique.
Paris: C. Reinwald et Cie, 1877. First edition. Ashley Montagu's Copy. A fine association copy of a seminal work in the field from the library of the renowned Engish anthropologist, Ashley Montagu. The enormously versatile Broca is perhaps better known now for his studies of aphasia and localized areas of...
Price: $350
A History of Fireworks.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1949]. First Edition. This is an update of the author's first book, "Pyrotechnics: the History and the Art of Firework Making." It is still the best book on the History of pyrotechnics.
Price: $250
Letters from Egypt and Syria.
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1856. First edition. Inscribed by author's sister for her late brother (who dies of a fever in Damascus) on the half-title "To Mrs. Butt/ With the best remembrances of/ the writer's sister." Bromfield was a well known boitanist whose collection went to Kew.
Price: $400
The General Gazetteer; or a Compendious Geographical Dictionary in Miniature.
London: Published by W. Palmer, From the Press of D. Buchanan, 1806.
Price: $200
Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with full directions for the young...
London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood speculates...
Price: $5,500
Eagles, Hawks & Falcons of the World.
Feltham, Middlesex): McGraw-Hill, (1968). First American edition.
Price: $150
The History of the First Locomotives in America.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First Edition.
Price: $150
Reports on the Mineral Resources of the United States.
Washington, D.C: GPO, 1867. First edition. Pages 1-320 on West of the Rockies, rest by Taylor "Gold Mines East of the Rockies."
Price: $175